• A general-purpose programming language originally designed for web development. PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf; the PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page,” but it now stands for the recursive initialism “Hypertext Preprocessor.” PHP code may be executed with a command-line interface (CLI), embedded into HTML code, or used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks. PHP code is usually processed by a PHP interpreter implemented as a module in a web server or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) executable. The web server outputs the results of the interpreted and executed PHP code, which may be any type of data, such as generated HTML code or binary image data. ← Wikipedia ↑ php.net

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